GANDHI

BORN

• Born October 2, 1869
• Birth name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1876

• Gandhi starts school in Rajkot.
• He studied different stories that influenced him in the future.

1881

• Gandhi starts high school in Rajkot.
• He read the bible and was very smart in his classes.
• He stayed away from athletics in high school and stayed with his work.

1883

• At the age of 13 Gandhi married a 14 year old girl named Kasturbai Makhanji.
• It was an arranged child marriage. He did not chose his wife.
• It was a part of their religion to have an arranged marriage.

1888

• He travels to London to train as a barrister.
• He left a month before his 19th birthday.
• This is where he joined the vegetarian society.

1893

• He was ejected from a train in South Africa.
• This is what motivated him to fight for Indian rights in British colonies.

1894

• He founds the Natal Indian Congress.
• Gandhi realized India needed permeant help with their interests. Hence the Natal Indian Congress.

1899

• He organized the Indian ambulance corps of 1000 men.
• This was during his time in the Boer War.

1921

• Gandhi is given authority to the Indian national congress.
• He had then created a new constitution while under his authority.

1944

• Gandhi's wife dies at age 74 of chronic bronchitis.
• She had also suffered two heart attacks which lead to her being in bed most of the time.

SALT MARCH

• The famous march that Gandhi had been the leader of in the 1930's.

GANDHI'S ASSASSINATION

• On January 30, 1948 Gandhi had been shot at 5:14 and killed as he was going to say his daily prayer meeting message.
• He died at age 78.

Satyagraha

• Basically means insistence on truth or truth insistence.

Works cited
All images from haiku deck
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Information from
http://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/mahatma-gandhi